today ended the 50 th Meeting of the Directing Council of the Pan American Health, which involved the Health Ministers of member countries and all the Managers that are part of the OPS to assess the health situation of the Americas and establishing purposes for the coming months, according to the challenges in public health.
One of these challenges prioritized by the ministers of health corresponds to the need for the institutions providing health services can not only withstand the onslaught of disasters but to labor with all their full potential in the treatment of victims and affected immediately after a disaster happens.
The call of the Ministers of Health is aimed at strengthening the objectives and goals for several years for hospitals safer from disasters. In this purpose, have pledged a new regional plan that includes investments and monitoring systems to ensure that hospitals and other health facilities are built to new standards of resilience to disasters and that the older facilities are upgraded to can function after an emergency or disaster.
The Action Plan includes Hospital Insurance objectives, goals, indicators and specific actions, set in 2015, but Prompt follow-up with goals, with which searching
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the development and implementation of policy and the national hospital insurance program for promote coordination and interagency and intersectoral participation at national, subnational and local -
the development and implementation of information systems to quickly identify all new construction repair or improvement of health infrastructure in order to incorporate measures that ensure its operation in cases of emergencies and disasters; -
the establishment and implementation of mechanisms for monitoring and independent monitoring of investment projects with the intervention of skilled professionals; -
ensuring incorporation of criteria for protection of life, investment and the role in all phases of new investment projects in health -
updating design standards, construction and operation of health facilities in order to protect the structural components, nonstructural and functional disaster, and -
improving the safety of existing health facilities, focusing on those which by their size and capacity of resolution are an essential part of the network of health services in emergencies and disasters.
In many of our countries and it has people trained in the evaluation of the Hospital Safety Index (ISH) and many hospitals have already undertaken the exercise of the baseline measure of ISH and some have been designed and developed an action plan from this line base. Again comes the opportunity for our hospitals access to investment resources and training to strengthen structural, nonstructural and functional. It means that if you have not measured the ISH, the national policy and resources to enable it do so promptly, and if you measured the ISH and the Plan of Action has not been completed, it is time to update and manage resources necessary for execution and remeasurement of the ISH.
In the video, the Program Director for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief (PED) of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr . Jean Luc Poncelet, talks about the importance of building safe hospitals, aimed at 2015 and the provision of tools for measuring safety score.
The Directing Council of PAHO / WHO meets once a year in the American Conference that is not celebrated. And acting on behalf of the Conference in between sessions.
Bibliography:
- Hospitals Action Plan Insurance PAHO Directing Council in http://bit.ly/HS50CD
- Other writings and sources available on this topic Giramundo in http://bit.ly/GIR_HS
Other trials, reviews and discussions in Giramundo: http://giramvndo.blogspot.com/ 
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